Monday, September 26, 2016

[DMANET] Workshop on Future Directions in Computational Social Choice in Budapest on 21-22 November 2016

*********************************************************************** * * * Call for Participation * * * WORKSHOP ON FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL CHOICE Budapest, 21-22 November 2016 Please register by 7 November 2016! https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__econ.core.hu_english_res_FutureCOMSOC.html&d=CwIDaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=DgVcb5_57rsfsfza1QC9CQ&m=UO_dOHbiMlgHSQkIiVHGq8XHCY3splwKrpbbCpsGF8E&s=T2fGvA1y_0D9YxM-IQxRnGgaaglc6SEh1Ftdf0Q87Hg&e= *********************************************************************** This workshop is organised by COST Action IC1205 on ComputationalSocial Choice as the final event of this European research network. Itwill showcase some of the results obtained during the four years inwhich the Action has been active and it will offer a glimpse at futureresearch directions in the field. The programme will consist of invitedtalks, an open poster session, and a rump session. Registration is freeof charge. ************************************************************************ INVITED SPEAKERS*********************************************************************** * Simina Brânzei (Jerusalem)* Markus Brill (Oxford)* László Csató (Budapest)* Ágnes Cseh (Budapest)* Andreas Darmann (Graz)* Ronald de Haan (Vienna)* Zsuzsanna Jankó (Budapest)* Svetlana Obraztsova (Jerusalem)* Jan Christoph Schlegel (Lausanne)* Piotr Skowron (Oxford)* Marija Slavkovik (Bergen)* Balázs Sziklai (Budapest) ************************************************************************ POSTER SESSION*********************************************************************** All members of the research community are invited to present their workon computational social choice and closely related topics during theopen poster session, to be held during the first day of the workshop.To express your interest in presenting a poster, please send the namesof all authors, the title of the poster, and an abstract of at most 300words to the organisers at comsoc2016budapest@gmail.com no later than7 November 2016. You will be notified about acceptance within one week.Space permitting, our intention is to accept all contributions that arein line with the theme of the workshop. ************************************************************************ RUMP SESSION*********************************************************************** The second day of the workshop will feature a so-called "rump session",where any participant interested can give a talk of 5 minutes on atopic of their choice, such as work in progress, an open problem, or anidea. Advance registration for the rump session is not possible. Therewill be a list to sign up making the rounds on the first day of theworkshop. ************************************************************************ REGISTRATION*********************************************************************** Registration is free of charge. To register, please send the followinginformation to comsoc2016budapest@gmail.com by 7 November 2016: * Name:* Affiliation:* Email address:* Period of stay:* Dietary restrictions: ************************************************************************ VENUE*********************************************************************** The workshop will take place in the centre of Budapest, in the mainbuilding of Corvinus University at Fővám tér 8, 1093 Budapest. ************************************************************************ ORGANISERS*********************************************************************** * Ágnes Cseh (Budapest)* Péter Biró (Budapest)* Ulle Endriss (Amsterdam) ************************************************************************ SPONSORS*********************************************************************** The workshop is organised and partly financed by COST Action IC1205 onComputational Social Choice (https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.illc.uva.nl_COST-2DIC1205_&d=CwIDaQ&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=DgVcb5_57rsfsfza1QC9CQ&m=UO_dOHbiMlgHSQkIiVHGq8XHCY3splwKrpbbCpsGF8E&s=0yW3vlAgzE5hU1J-YDZsP000iQev2vMgeuGB_QMFEOk&e= ).Additional support received from the Faculty of Economics at CorvinusUniversity of Budapest, the Mechanism Design Research Group of theHungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute for Logic, Languageand Computation at the University of Amsterdam is gratefullyacknowledged. *********************************************************************** ************************************************************ Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to** DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de** Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be* addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. 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